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Book SynopsisVision Perception and Cognition, Fourth Edition is a concisely structured text that expertly addresses clinical reasoning and decision making for the entire evaluation and treatment process of the adult with acquired brain injury. Provided are theoretical information, guidelines for both static and dynamic assessment, information on specific standardized evaluations, guidelines for adaptive and restorative treatment based on described theoretical and evidence-based information, and information on environmental impact of client performance. Inside this best-selling book, Barbara Zoltan, MA, OTR/L addresses visual, perceptual, and cognitive evaluation and treatment, providing structure, clarity, and content suitable for both students and experienced clinicians. Updated and expanded to reflect current practice and relevant research, Vision, Perception, and Cognition, Fourth Edition is a unique resource that takes the reader from theory to practice in a practical and detailed way. Students and clinicians will benefit from the numerous tables, figures, and extensive references presented throughout the text, as well as the inclusion of a glossary, for easy reference to terminology used throughout Vision, Perception, and Cognition, Fourth Edition. Faculty will be impressed by the addition of an on-line instructor’s manual for additional classroom learning objectives and activities. Component areas covered include: • Primary visual skills • Apraxia and agnosia • Visual discrimination skills • Orientation • Attention • Memory • Self-awareness and monitoring • Planning and organization • Problem solving and decision making • Categorization • Mental flexibility • Abstraction • Generalization and transfer • Acalculia New topics addressed in this Fourth Edition: • Constraint-induced therapy • Brain plasticity/Functional reorganization • Neuroimaging • Specific occupation-based models and evaluations • Contextual influence on client performance • Client-centered practice • Client learning capacity • Clinical reasoning • Interviewing • Standardization • Visual vestibular processing • Pupillary response • Contrast sensitivity Whether you are a student or clinician in the area of occupational therapy, physical therapy, neuropsychology, optometry, or speech pathology, Vision, Perception, and Cognition: A Manual for the Evaluation and Treatment of the Adult with Acquired Brain Injury, Fourth Edition will continue to be an invaluable resource for exploring theory and practice in the evaluation and treatment processes. Trade Review“This is a very well researched and referenced text that effectively integrates the author’s many years of experience with research evidence. It provides the student and practicing clinician with many helpful resources, including specific standardized assessments, occupationally based assessments and dynamic assessments as well as additional references to consult for further reading. As each chapter addresses a particular set of deficits and skills, clinicians can also quickly refer to specific chapters of interest as questions arise in their practices.” — Mary Kita, Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy "This book is affordable, and although aimed at occupational therapists, it would be useful for physiotherapists specializing in neurological rehabilitation, and health professionals who wish to understand more about visual, perceptual and cognitive functioning." — Margaret J. Mayston, Physiotherapy "The strength of the book lies in the chapters relating to cognitive-perceptual functions, most of which provide sufficient (but not overwhelming) background material on the function, highly detailed descriptions of evaluation methods, and moderately thorough reviews of treatment interventions. The best discussions relate to evaluation and assessment measures, each of which is a highly detailed set of guidelines that clinicians can readily follow in their patient care activities. This is a useful book for practicing clinicians and students in rehabilitation therapy disciplines, providing the appropriate theoretical and scientific support for certain clinical activities, but mostly providing extensive, detailed, and easy-to-follow guidelines on clinical assessment techniques for patients with cognitive, perceptual, and visual dysfunction. There are several new clinical techniques discussed in this edition that were not included in prior version." — Elliot J. Roth MD, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Doody Enterprises, Inc.Table of ContentsContents Dedication Acknowledgments About the Author Foreword Preface Chapter 1: Theoretical and Additional Factors Guiding Evaluation and Treatment Section I: Theoretical Basis Theory as a Basis for Evaluation and Treatment Frames of Reference Utilizing a Restorative Conceptual Base: Bottom-Up Approaches Frames of Reference Utilizing an Adaptive Conceptual Base: Top-Down Approaches Section II: Additional Factors Guiding Evaluation and Treatment Client-Centered Practice Client and Family Education The Client's Learning Capacity and Its Influence on Performance Evidence-Based Practice Clinical Reasoning Chapter 2: General Evaluation Issues Top-Down and Bottom-Up Assessments Occupation-Based Evaluations Quantitative (Static) Assessment Qualitative Assessment Clinical Observation Interviewing Dynamic Assessment Test Reliability Test Validity Standardization Test Scoring Administration of Tests Evaluation Choice Chapter 3: Visual Processing Skills Modified Information Processing Theory Warren's Hierarchal Model of Visual Processing Evaluation and Treatment of Visual Skills General Guidelines for Visual Processing Skills Evaluation Pupillary Response Visual Acuity Contrast Sensitivity Ocular Alignment Visual Fields Oculomotor Control Visual Fixation Saccadic Eye Movements Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements Organized Scanning Convergence and Accommodation Diplopia Visual Inattention Visual/Vestibular Processing Chapter 4: Apraxia Ideomotor Apraxia Ideational Apraxia Limb-Kinetic Apraxia Oral Apraxia Constructional Apraxia Dressing Apraxia Chapter 5: Body Scheme Disorders Body Scheme Autotopagnosia Unilateral Body Neglect Anosognosia Right-Left Discrimination Finger Agnosia Chapter 6: Visual Discrimination Skills Form Discrimination Depth Perception (Stereopsis) Figure-Ground Perception Spatial Relations Topographical Disorientation Additional Test Batteries of Visual Discrimination/Perception Chapter 7: Agnosia Visual Agnosia Visual Object Agnosia Prosopagnosia Simultagnosia Color Agnosia Metamorphopsia Visual-Spatial Agnosia Topographagnosia Environmental Agnosia Tactile Agnosia Auditory Agnosia Apractognosia Agnosias Related to Body-Scheme Disorders Chapter 8: Orientation and Attention Orientation Attention Chapter 9: Memory Sensory, Perceptual, and Working Memory Implicit and Explicit Memory Declarative and Nondeclarative (Procedural) Memory Prospective Memory Semantic and Episodic Memory Long-Term Memory Chapter 10: Executive Function Executive Function Section I: Evaluation and Treatment of Self-Awareness and Monitoring Section II: Evaluation and Treatment of Executive Function Initiation Planning and Organization Problem Solving Decision Making Categorization Mental Flexibility Abstraction Generalization and Transfer Section III: Occupation-Based Evaluations of Executive Function Chapter 11: Acalculia Acalculia Chapter 12: Factors That Influence the Client's Vision, Perception, and Cognition The Relationship of Age to Visual, Perceptual, and Cognitive Evaluation and Treatment Sleep Disorders Motivation Depression Behavior and Personality Changes Additional Factors Affecting Performance Chapter 13: The Use of Computers and Computerized Technology in Visual Perceptual, and Cognitive Retraining Computers Computerized Technology Appendix A: Common Statistical Terms and Analyses Used in Clinical Research Studies Appendix B: Evaluation Index Appendix C: Glossary of Terms Index

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Book SynopsisMost human thinking is thoroughly informed by context, but, until recently, theories of reasoning have concentrated on abstract rules and generalities that make no reference to this crucial factor. "Perspectives on Contexts" brings together essays from leading cognitive scientists to forge a vigorous interdisciplinary understanding of the contextual phenomenon. Applicable to human and machine cognition in philosophy, artificial intelligence, and psychology, this volume is essential to the current renaissance in thinking about context.

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Book SynopsisThis volume broadens our concept of reasoning and rationality to allow for a more pluralistic and situational view of human thinking as a practical activity. Drawing on contributors across disciplines including philosophy, economics, psychology, statistics, computer science, engineering, and physics, "Reasoning, Rationality, and Probability" argues that the search for strong theories should leave room for the construction of context-sensitive conceptual tools. Both science and everyday life, the authors argue, are too complex and multifaceted to be forced into ready-made schemata.

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Book SynopsisHere is the ultimate explanation of the brain for everyone who thinks: a guide to how the brain works, how our brains came to operate the way they do, and, most important, how to use your precious gray matter to its full capacity. The brain, according to current research, is not some kind of automatic machine that works independently of its user. In fact, the circuitry of the brain actually changes according to how one uses it. Our brains are continuously developing new capacities and refinements—or losing them, depending upon how we use them. Gerald Hüther takes us on a fascinating tour of the brain''s development—from one-celled organisms to worms, moles, apes, and on to us humans—showing how we truly are what we think: our behavior directly affects our brain capacity. And the behavior that promotes the fullest development of the brain is behavior that balances emotion and intellect, dependence and autonomy, openness and focus, and ultimately expresses itself in such virtues as truthfulness, considerateness, sincerity, humility, and love. Hüther''s user''s-manual approach is humorous and engaging, with a minimum of technical language, yet the book''s message is profound: the fundamental nature of our brains and nervous systems naturally leads to our continued growth in intelligence and humanity.

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Book SynopsisEver been to so many meetings that you couldn't get your work done? Ever fallen asleep during a bulletpoint presentation? Ever watched the news and ended up knowing less? Welcome to the land of Blah Blah Blah.The Problem: We talk so much that we don't think very well. Powerful as words are, we fool ourselves when we think our words alone can detect, describe, and defuse the multifaceted problems of today. They can't-and that's bad, because words have become our default thinking tool.The Solution: This book offers a way out of blah-blah-blah. It's called 'Vivid Thinking.'In Dan Roam's first acclaimed book, The Back of the Napkin, he taught readers how to solve problems and sell ideas by drawing simple pictures. Now he proves that Vivid Thinking is even more powerful. This technique combines our verbal and visual minds so that we can think and learn more quickly, teach and inspire our colleagues, and enjoy and share ideas in a whole new way.The Destination: No more blah-blah-blah. Through Vivid Thinking, we can make the most complicated subjects suddenly crystal clear. Whether trying to understand a Harvard Business School class, or what went down in the Conan versus Leno battle for late-night TV, or what Einstein thought about relativity, Vivid Thinking provides a way to clarify anything.Through dozens of guided examples, Roam proves that anyone can apply this systematic approach, from leftbrain types who hate to draw to right-brainers who hate to write. This isn't just a book about improving communications, presentations, and ideation; it's about removing the blah-blah- blah from your life for good.

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Book SynopsisThe blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory“Highly entertaining.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker“Funny, curious, erudite, and full of useful details about ancient techniques of training memory.” —The Boston GlobeAn instant bestseller that has now become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top mental athletes. He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author's own mind, this is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.

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Book SynopsisSuzanne Farrell Smith’s father was killed by a drunk driver when she was six, and a devastating fire nearly destroyed her house when she was eight. She remembers those two—and only those two—events from her first nearly twelve years of life. While her three older sisters hold on to rich and rewarding memories of their father, Smith recalls nothing of him. Her entire childhood was, seemingly, erased. In The Memory Sessions, Smith attempts to excavate lost childhood memories. She puts herself through multiple therapies and exercises, including psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, somatic experiencing, and acupuncture. She digs for clues in her mother’s long-stored boxes. She creates—with objects, photographs, and captions—a physical timeline to compensate for the one that’s missing in her memory. She travels to San Diego, where her family vacationed with her father right before he died. She researches, interviews, and meditates, all while facing down the two traumatic memories that defined her early life. The result is an experimental memoir that upends our understanding of the genre. Rather than recount a childhood, The Memory Sessions attempts to create one from research, archives, imagination, and the memories of others. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"The Memory Sessions is a beautiful, haunting, lyrical memoir that will prompt readers to consider their own memories in new, startling, and important ways. Not only is Suzanne Farrell Smith a masterful storyteller, she is wise and brave, as is this book." -- Connie May Fowler * author of Before Women had Wings and A Million Fragile Bones *"Suzanne Farrell Smith’s debut memoir triumphs over a seemingly insurmountable challenge: psychological awakening from years of traumatic erasure. 'I aim for a cloud,' she explains, trying to center herself, 'which is nothing, which has no beginning, no history, no end, no form.' And yet, from her amorphous journeys she miraculously creates the solidity of wisdom. Lovingly researched and exquisitely crafted, her reflections fall upon the reader like dazzling sunshowers from nearly cloudless skies." -- Sascha Feinstein * author of Wreckage: My Father’s Legacy of Art & Junk *"From its electrifying, heartbreaking opening sentence, Suzanne Farrell Smith’s memoir is a meticulous, brave, beautifully rendered attempt to retrieve a forgotten past. That she achieves a kind of closure, despite overwhelming impediments, is a testament to her will, and to her artistry." -- Robert Leonard Reid * author of Because It Is So Beautiful: Unraveling the Mystique of the American West *"Writing Small Moments: A Conversation with Suzanne Farrell Smith" by Donna Tallent https://therumpus.net/2020/05/the-rumpus-interview-with-suzanne-farrell-smith/ * The Rumpus *Table of Contents I The Bridge Time of Death Blaze of Gloria Table for Five Bridges and Tunnels II A Peculiar Darkness Going on a Hunt Of Myth and Memory III To Light Another Version of Us To Make One’s Way through the Earth The Death Thing Everything Reaches to Light

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Book SynopsisOne of “the most comprehensive, erudite, and timely” explorations of power dynamics and authoritarianism in religions, institutions, relationships and even personal struggles (San Francisco Chronicle Book Review)Authoritarian control, which once held societies together, is now at the core of personal, social, and planetary problems, and thus a key factor in social disintegration. Authoritarianism is embedded in the way people think—hiding in culture, values, daily life, and in the very morality people try to live by.In The Guru Papers, authors Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad unmask authoritarianism in areas such as relationships, cults, 12-step groups, religion, and contemporary morality. Chapters on addiction and love show the insidious nature of authoritarian values and ideologies in the most intimate corners of life, offering new frameworks for understanding why people get addicted and why intimacy is laden with conflict. By exposing the inner authoritarian that people use to control themselves and others, the authors show why people give up their power, and how others get and maintain it.

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Book SynopsisADD: The 20-Hour Solution explains how EEG biofeedback (neurofeedback) addresses the underlying problem and characteristics of ADD and ADHD, so that symptoms resolve and tangible improvement results. This book describes the method by which we can improve the brain's ability to pay attention and regulate its behavior. It explains the self-healing capacities of the human brain and how it can learn or re-learn the self-regulatory mechanisms that are basic to its normal design and function. This book shows:.What ADD really is and how the brain maintains self-regulation.How and why EEG biofeedback (neurofeedback) helps people with ADD.What parents can do to get their child on-track to healthy adjustment and development.How to talk to doctors, therapists, teachers, and others about ADD.Good assessment procedures and how they contribute to effective treatment.How self-control, personal choice, and responsibility for one's behavior relate to scientific principles of brain functioning.How to find appropriate resources and get started with neurotherapyThe book also lists specific up-to-date resources on where to find information on EEG neurofeedback and how to find providers throughout the world.

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Book SynopsisBased on the earlier work of Dr. Robert J. Marzano, this instructional guide provides explicit steps, examples, and adaptations to help educators effectively teach students how to record and represent knowledge.

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Book SynopsisIn this pioneering book, Joseph Shaules presents exciting new research from cultural psychology and neuroscience. It sheds light on the hidden influence of culture on the unconscious mind, and helps people get more out of their intercultural journeys.The Intercultural Mind presents new perspectives on important questions such as: What is culture shock, and how does it affect us? Why are we blind to our own cultural conditioning? Can cultural differences be measured? What does it mean to have an international mindset? Illustrated with a wealth of examples and memorable stories, The Intercultural Mind is a fascinating look at how intercultural experiences can transform the geography of our minds.Trade ReviewIt was about time that someone put it all together in understandable language! Besides the best and latest insights from research around human cognition and culture, Shaules book contains very useful examples that can form a basis for creating and facilitating learning activities. A milestone which will contribute toward the achievement of human peace in our multicultural world. * SIETAR Europa Journal *Shaules seamlessly compares and intertwines recent neuroscientific research with traditional perspectives and theories. A very readable presentation on how what we currently label cognition and culture interact. * Human Technology: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in ICT Environments *A fascinating and important book about understanding cross-culturalism. Lively, well-written, incisive, and fun to read. -- Robert Whiting, Pulitzer Prize, nominee and bestselling author of Tokyo UnderworldA much-needed exploration drawing on neuroscience, cultural psychology, and exciting reports from the field. Joseph Shaules goes beyond the excellence of his previous books. -- Stefan Meister, Managing Director, InterculturesThe Intercultural Mind provides an accessible and intelligent introduction to the potential blend of cultural neuroscience and intercultural competence. This topic will surely be influential in the future of the field. -- Janet Marie Bennett, Executive Director, Intercultural Communication Institute

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Book SynopsisA World of Many explores the world-making efforts of Tzotzil Maya children from two different localities within the municipality of Chenalhó, Chiapas. The research demonstrates children’s agency in creating their worlds, while also investigating the role played by the surrounding social and physical environment. Different experiences with schooling, parenting, goals and values, but also with climate change, water scarcity, as well as racism and settler colonialism form part of the reason children create their emerging worlds. These worlds are not make believe or anything less than the ontological products of their parents. Instead, Norbert Ross argues that by creating different worlds, the children ultimately fashion themselves into different human beings - quite literally being different in the world. A World of Many combines experimental research from the cognitive sciences with critical theory, exploring children’s agency in devising their own ontologies. Rather than treating children as somewhat incomplete humans, it understands children as tinkerers and thinkers, makers of their worlds amidst complex relations. It regards being as a constant ontological production, where life and living constitutes activism. Using experimental paradigms, the book shows that children locate themselves differently in these emerging worlds they create, becoming different human beings in the process.Trade Review"Norbert Ross questions the foundations of everything—the architecture of reality, knowledge, and learning—in his investigations of the Mexican community of Chenalhó. The observations and experiences of Tzotzil maya children help us understand what it is to be human, to be alive, and to have a soul and how life is activism. This methodologically innovative and theoretically intricate project invites readers to appreciate in a nuanced and profound way diversity in humanity and ways of being in the world." -- Kathryn Sampeck * co-editor of Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in early Modern Mesoamerica *"I love books like this that challenge us to turn our thinking about ontology upside down. Scholars of young people often begin by examining what ontology teaches about childhood. We can forget how valuable it is to explore how notions of childhood actually reshape ontology. A World of Many is a successful experiment in inverting our assumptions about what we think we know about what we know." -- Rachael Stryker * co-editor of Up, Down, and Sideways: Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Powe *Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 A World Where Other Worlds Can Be at Home 3 Ontology and Resistance 4 Folk-Biological Knowledge, Education, and Framework Theories 5 Study Design and Methods 6 Complexity, Niche Theory, and Cultural Models 7 From Subsistence to Extraction: Globalization, Change, and Spatial Organization in Chenalhó 8 Knowledge Sources and Learning Biases: Experience, Values, and Ontologies 9 Growing Up in Chenalhó: Knowledge Sources and the Spatial Distribution of Change and Modernity 10 What Is It Called? Plant Knowledge in Chenalhó 11 Concepts of “Alive and “Living Kinds”: Experience, Culture, and Ontology 12 How Alive Is It? Revisiting the Concept of “Alive” 13 Being in Space 14 One of Many: The Making of a Diversity of WorldsAcknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is it about human beings that makes us creative, able to imagine and enact new possibilities for life and new solutions to problems in a way that no other animal can? The authors included in The Genesis of Creativity and the Origin of the Human Mind explore this question in essays and studies from a range of specializations and backgrounds. Experts on culture, art, and evolution come together to describe, analyze, and interpret the origins of artistic creativity and the anatomical and neurological structures that contribute to it. Essays focus on the origins of art in the Upper Palaeolithic as well as on manifestations of artistic creativity in preliterary societies and tribal cultures that have been preserved to the present day. The interdisciplinary approach to the topic accentuates the wide array of possible methodologies and interpretations of artistic manifestations in particular historic and cultural contexts.

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